Sand clouds are common in atmospheres of brown dwarfs
Clouds of sand can condense, grow and disappear in some extraterrestrial atmospheres. A new look at old data shows that clouds made of hot silicate…
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Hubble spies on 25 hot Jupiters to learn about atmospheres
In the last decade, we’ve become remarkably good at identifying exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. In fact, we recently passed an…
Webb researcher on how to investigate exoplanet atmospheres
When the James Webb Space Telescope begins science operations this summer, it will be used to investigate a wide variety of astronomical objects, from…
Murderous bears and heavy metal exoplanet atmospheres lead the week in science news
There was a lot of science news from across many fields this week, from biology and wildlife management to NASA's plans for the International Space Station…
Puffy planets lose atmospheres, become super-Earths: Finding represents first detections of…
Astronomers have identified two different cases of "mini-Neptune" planets that are losing their puffy atmospheres and likely transforming into super-Earths.…